Senior Lead Architect- Architecture Governance

What you'll do

• Run and improve governance processes and forums, including RFCs, ADRs, controls traceability, and decision follow-through.
• Develop architecture models, reusable patterns, and design guidance; advise product, engineering, operations, and control teams.
• Apply enterprise-authorized AI to architecture workflows and contribute hands-on to prototypes, automation, infrastructure definitions, and delivery.

What they ask for

• Formal training or certification on architecture concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Experience executing architecture governance processes and improving them through standards, tooling, and automation.
• Experience with enterprise-authorized agentic AI and enterprise, software, and infrastructure architecture across cloud, compute, network, platforms, and resiliency engineering.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and Terraform; proficiency in at least one programming language and practical CI/CD experience.

Nice to have

• Experience architecting or modernizing mission-critical platforms in areas such as financial transaction processing, payments, or enterprise data.
• Experience with platform engineering, self-service capabilities, data platforms, or designing agentic AI capabilities.

Pay

$175,750.00-$260,000.00 USD base salary

Tools

AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, Model Context Protocol (MCP)

AI focus

Applies enterprise-authorized agentic AI to improve architecture governance workflows and accelerate architecture analysis, impact assessment, and engineering practices, with human validation and appropriate controls.